Honouring and Remembering British Police Officers who Lost their Lives in the Line of Duty ~ Lest we Forget

THE
CARNEGIE HERO FUND TRUST

ROLL
OF HEROES & OF HEROINES

POSTHUMOUS
POLICE AWARDS

Below
are the names and details of police officers who lost their lives
in the performance of acts of gallantry and are known to have
been honoured by the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust; the illustrations
are of their entries in the volumes of the Roll.

ArthurWright, Police Constable,Matlock,
was drowned in the River Derwent, on the
27th March 1911,
while attempting to rescue a girl who was also drowned.

AlfredPearson, Police Constable, Seaforth,
on the 25th June 1911, was drowned in the Liverpool
& Leeds Canal
at Litherland, in consequence of an effort made by him to rescue a young woman.

JosephWatt, PC, (32), Romford,
died on the 8th September
1913, in consequence of injuries received in endeavouring to stop a
runaway horse in High Street, Romford, on the 27th August 1913.

Police Constable Edward G B Greenoff (29), 13
Rhea Street, North Woolwich, on 19th
January 1917, sustained
fatal injuries while urging people to flee from the scene of an explosion at a
munitions factory.

Also
awarded the King's Police Medal for Gallantry.

Police Constable AlfredSmith (37), 22
Gerrard Street, Islington, London, N,
lost his life on 13th June 1917, while urging
employees of a factory to take cover during a hostile air raid.

Police Constable Edwin P Cook (33), 28
Macfarlane Road, Shepherd’s Bush, London, and
David R Williams (22), Labourer, 24 Farmer Street,
Notting Hill, London, on 7th October 1927, lost their lives while attempting to rescue a man
who had been overcome by gas at the bottom of a shaft.

Police Constable Howard S Overton (51), 4 Lansdown Cottages, Moorlands
Road, Malvern,
on 28th May 1928, was fatally injured
while preventing a child from being run over by a motor car.

Police Sergeant Robert Little (46) 14th December 1930 (Killed by fumes trying to rescue
an old lady trapped in a burning house at Seaham
Harbour, County Durham. *no citation seen)

Also
awarded the King's Police Medal for Gallantry.

Police Constable Tom W Jewes (25), 18
Duke Street, Chorley,
Lancs., lost his life on 16th
June 1933 while
attempting to rescue a man from drowning in the River Irwell at Manchester.John Tudor (21), Hose Maker, 99 Greengate,
Salford,
unsuccessfully attempted to rescue both men.

Police Sergeant HaroldGlasby (35), 220
Woolwich Road, Bexley Heath, Kent,
lost his life on 2nd July 1934, while endeavouring to
rescue his wife and two children from drowning in the Lake
at Danson Park,
Bexley Heath.

Also
awarded The Royal Humane Society 'In Memoriam' Bronze Medal.

Police Constable James W Thomson(32) 7th September
1935(Killed trying to clear a crowd from the path of an out of control
lorry at Barnet Hill, London.
*no citation seen)

Also
awarded the King's Police Medal for Gallantry.

Police Constable FrancisProsser (36), 38
Kingsdale Road, Liverpool, lost his life on 6th May 1940
as a result of attempting to stop a runaway horse.

Cpl MichaelCooney (34), Military Police,
Griffith Barracks, Dublin,
lost his life on 14th
December 1940 while
attempting in darkness, to rescue three people trapped in a motor car in the Grand
Canal.

Police Constable Thomas ABenn (25), 8 Glendevon Road,
Broadgreen, Liverpool 14, and Police
Constable Leslie W Lacey (26), 105 Larkfield Road, Liverpool, on 29th
March 1941, went to the assistance
of persons who had been trapped by fire in their home, Benn losing his life in
the course of his efforts and Lacey sustaining severe injury.

Also
awarded the King's Police and Fire Services
Medal for Gallantry.

Police Constable Eric L Valantine (34), 10
Bletchley Avenue, Wallasey, Cheshire,
lost his life on 20th
August 1943 while
attempting to rescue a woman (30) from drowning in the River Mersey.

Also awarded the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane
Society "In Memoriam" Medallion and their Silver
Medal for another rescue two days earlier.

Police Sergeant Ronald M Roffey (37), 231
Seafield Road, Southbourne, Bournemouth,
lost his life on 22nd
August 1956 in going to
the assistance of his daughter (13), who was in difficulties in the sea at St
Ouen’s Bay, Jersey,
Channel Islands.

AlanChoules (29), Police Officer, lost his life on 25th April 1971 while attempting to rescue a boy from drowning in
the River Thames, near Staines,
Middlesex.

Police Constable David RPeterson (36), Glasgow, lost
his life on 9th September 1972 in attempting to warn
the occupants of a multi-storey block of flats in Glasgow
about an outbreak of fire.

Police Const. ColinMacDuff
(28), Bishopsrigg, lost his life on 27th June 1973 in attempting to rescue a man from drowning
in the River Clyde at Glasgow
Bridge.

StewartWill (38), Sergeant, Metropolitan Police, Cheshunt,
Hertfordshire, lost his life on 26th
July 1973 in an attempt
to rescue a girl who had been swept out to sea by high waves at North
Berwick.